What do most people do when they start to experience pain? As a society, we have relatively easy access to medications to numb our experience of pain.
Most people, when confronted with an aching back, or even a minor headache, reach for the aspirin, or worse, a prescription painkiller.
The statistics are shocking, with at least 116 millions Americans suffering from chronic pain and this number is growing.
It’s becoming obvious that conventional medicine is failing us, opioids and aspirin can only mask the symptoms. If we truly want to heal, we must get to the root of the issue.
What is causing so much chronic pain for hundred of millions of people every day? The answer is multi-faceted, as people experience pain for a multitude of reasons.
What we can analyze, is the bodies natural response to pain, inflammation, and how we can work to reduce it, instead of just cover it up.
My goal isn’t to tell sufferers of chronic pain to go off their prescriptions cold turkey. What I aim for is to elevate awareness of inflammation, what it is and how we can work toward relieving it.
When multiple strategies are put in place, there is hope for people suffering from chronic pain, diabetes, and even cancer, without addictive drugs.
